Dunwoody College of Technology

in and receive credit for courses offered by the College of Education at the university that were part of the teacher training authorized by the Smith Hughes Act. These matriculations were considered scholarships and did not encumber the university or the Institute in monetary exchanges, only the awarding of credits. There were no other recognizable post-secondary technical institutes or colleges at this time in Minnesota.In 1953 the Ford Foundation gave Dunwoody a grant to send representatives to consult with the Indonesian Ministry of Education. Under the leadership of Dunwoody’s second director, J. R. Kingman, an Indonesian Technical Teacher Training Institute was to be established in Bandung, Java. An American, Milton G Towner, was its advisor and director. He was on leave as director of the Staff College of the Federal Civil Defense Administration in Washington, DC. Six American teachers from Dunwoody were sent with Towner to work with indigenous Indonesians to make training available to prospective and …